Tag: Images from the Geograph British Isles project needing categories as of 24 February 2011

Winterborne Whitechurch: postbox № DT11 94, East Down A small postbox serving a handful of properties.

Winterborne Whitechurch: postbox № DT11 168, Lower Street This small postbox is emptied at 10:15am on weekdays, and fifteen minutes earlier on Saturdays.

Winterborne Herringston: postbox № DT2 47 A Victorian postbox emptied at 9am Monday-Saturday, alongside a parish noticeboard.

Whitcombe: postbox № DT2 66 This postbox catches the last of the winter afternoon sun, with the barn and church in the distance.

West Knighton: postbox № DT2 124, Tenantrees This little George V-reign postbox, in the north of the parish of West Knighton near Lewell Farm, is on an old bit of road which is now an access road sinc…

West Howe: St. Philip’s Church A modern church serving the large West Howe council estate.

West Howe: postbox № BH11 71, Maclean Road This Elizabeth II-reign postbox, at the corner of a grassy patch between road and houses, is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 12:30pm on Saturday…

West Howe: postbox № BH11 402, Autumn Road This postbox serves the little estate built in the early 2000s, which straddles the Bournemouth-Poole boundary as clearly indicated on the map.

West Howe: postbox № BH11 301, Littlemoor Avenue Looking along Littlemoor Avenue, which turns right in the distance and follows the borough boundary so that the houses on the back are actually in Pool…

West Howe: postbox № BH11 241, Holloway Avenue An Elizabeth II-reign box, to which the railings have given way, by the junction with Youngs Road.

West Howe: postbox № BH11 207, High Oaks Gardens High Oaks Gardens, a relatively recent development, has had this postbox since shortly after West Howe Post Office closed, just up the road, in March 2…

Traeth y Greigddu Dydd Nadolig 2008 – Black Rock Sands Christmas Day 2008 Looking across Tremadog Bay towards Harlech.

Traeth y Greigddu Dydd Nadolig 2008 – Black Rock Sands Christmas Day 2008 Christmas riders - Cricieth castle in the distance.

Traeth y Greigddu Dydd Nadolig 2008 – Black Rock Sands Christmas Day 2008 Tyre tracks and Christmas lunchtime walkers.

Traeth y Greigddu Dydd Nadolig 2008 – Black Rock Sands Christmas Day 2008 Dog-walking on an overcast Christmas lunchtime.

Thornicombe: postbox № DT11 16 and phone Two red objects just off the main A354 at Thornicombe. The postbox is emptied daily, Monday to Saturday, at 9:30am.

This bridge is across the canal at Moneypennys’ lock

Stratford Canal cruising — it’s finger-pointing good! At Kingswood Junction, approximately halfway along the Stratford-on-Avon Canal, a wooden finger-post with carved ends and slightly decorative supp…

Sandbanks: postbox № BH13 238, Panorama Road This George V-reign postbox is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:45am on Saturdays. Off to the right goes 1114426 to the harbour shore.

Sandbanks: postbox № BH13 237, Banks Road Standing alongside the entrance to the Haven Hotel, this postbox is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:45am on Saturdays.

Sandbanks: footpath № 82 to the shore This must be one of the most disappointing paths anywhere. One would optimistically think that it might lead to a pleasant shoreline walk, but in fact it comes ou…

Portland: Royal Mail LDO and postbox № DT5 152 The Local Delivery Office, or LDO, is in this small industrial park, the road being named Tradecroft. The postbox has the latest collection times of any …

Portland: postbox № DT5 113, St. George’s Estate Road This pillar box stands opposite the turning to a little council estate whose road is curiously named Pound Piece.

Portland: postbox № DT5 54, Grosvenor Road This little Edward VII-reign postbox is set into a rather oversize stone pillar. Items need to have been posted in here by 4:15 weekdays, or 11:15am Saturday…

Portland: postbox № DT5 31 and phone, Weston Road This postbox used to be outside Weston Post Office – it was the post office, not the postbox, that moved, about ten years ago a short distance north i…

Portland: postbox № DT5 23, Wakeham A Victorian postbox that is just starting to catch the sun.

Portland: postbox № DT5 22 and former Southwell Post Office This was Dorset's southernmost post office until its closure on 18 February 1999. The George V-reign post box reminds us of its former locat…

Portland: postbox № DT5 151 and entrance to Maritime House Maritime House is a part of the Southwell Business Park, along with the Portland Spa Hotel. Here we see the main entrance, with the postbox o…

Portland: postbox № DT5 145, Seven Acres A small postbox in this bungalowy development in Southwell, southern Portland.

Portland: postbox № DT5 126, Grangecroft Road A small postbox in western Weston, as it were. The nearer grey thing is a 'drop box', where the postman can store some of his delivery to save a walk back…

Portland: Easton Post Office and postbox № DT5 57 On Reforne, just as it leaves Easton Square. The Elizabeth II-reign wall box is a large one.

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 69, Compton Avenue A cat contemplates jumping onto a low wall a little farther up the road, though in the end it disappeared up a driveway at ground level. The George V-reign…

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 59, Parkstone Avenue A George V-reign wall box outside number 105 Parkstone Avenue. The advertised last collection times are 5:30pm on weekdays and noon on Saturdays, but the…

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 56, Spur Hill Avenue An Edward VII-reign postbox under a large tree on the corner of Spur Hill Avenue and Munster Road, which we are looking down. It shares this corner plot …

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 51, Conifer Avenue A George V-reign postbox in a road which had received an unusual form of traffic calming – every other junction has been realigned so that priority is give…

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 202, Elgin Road This George VI-reign postbox is on the corner of Elgin Road and Austin Avenue and is emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at 11:45am on Saturdays.

Parkstone: postbox № BH14 151, Clifton Road A George V-reign box by the junction with King's Crescent, emptied finally at 5:30pm on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays.

Montacute: view from St. Michael's Hill tower Looking out from the tower at the top of St. Michael's Hill, we have splendid views down to 1112432 bottom right and a large expanse of the surrounding co…

Montacute: tower atop St. Michael’s Hill This tower stands at the summit of St. Michael’s Hill and you can climb it to obtain fantastic views over the surrounding countryside. The rough foliage above …

Moneypennys’ lock This bridge is across the canal at Moneypennys’ lock

Milborne St. Andrew: Saddler’s Thatch A picturesque cottage at the western end of Homefield, where it becomes Little England.

Milborne St. Andrew: postbox № DT11 96 A George V-reign postbox set into the wall of 1072181. It is emptied finally at 4pm on weekdays and at 10am on Saturdays.

Milborne St. Andrew: postbox № DT11 121, Blandford Hill This small postbox is outside a small industrial estate. Unusually, its last collection is later on a Saturday (10am) than on weekdays (9am).

Manswood: postbox № BH21 9 This Victorian postbox is in the wall of an outbuilding opposite Penny Black, the cottage which used to be the post office. See 1064167. It is emptied at 11:30am on weekdays…

Manswood: postbox № BH21 138 A small postbox for a small hamlet, though there is also a second box in the village.

Looking out one of the King’s Caves Like being in a giant scull

Littledown: postbox № BH7 255, Cowell Drive Cowell Drive comprises three sides of the squareish main road around this 80s housing estate. It does not actually have any properties itself but joins all …

Hinton Martell: postbox № BH21 30, High Lea This postbox is a little way down the Witchampton road from the B3078, which crosses the picture. The box is emptied at 2:45pm on weekdays and at 10:30am on…

Hemsworth: postbox № BH21 88 A small box emptied at 11am on weekdays and at 10am on Saturdays.

Crossways: postbox № DT2 189 and phone, Paul’s Way A small postbox serving the modern western end of this fairly young village.